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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29

From hest Loui, Republican.
The Hon. Vim. Henry Cram, who
represents the Seventh Texas district
in the lower house of congress is the
first native Texan who served in that
body. Mr. Grain is now about 40
years old, and graduated at Fordham
college New York. He served as
district attorney in Western Texas
aud made q reputation as "a senator in
the Texas Legislature. He was elected
to congress to succeed the notorious
Tom Ochiltree and made all excellent
record in the last congress. He was
reelected to the Fiftieth congress
without opposition, and will probab-
ly be kept IN the house until he Is
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29

TIE Austin Statesman Is on the right
track in urging its farmer friends
to raise less cotton and moro fruits,
vegetables and various products for
home consumption, II would really
seem, to a man up tree, that Texas
people have been living too far from
their base OF supplies, with their
smoke houses in Chicago and Kan
sss City, their orchards and gard rs
in California, 1our mills in Kansas
City, coal mines in the lndisn Terri
tory nearly all their factories in New
England or the old world. How long.
fellow Texans will you allow the old
regime to obtain, TO retard the prog
ross of our glorious empire state:
Texas farms, ranches, gardens and
orchards could and should feed aud
clothe large portion of the civilized
world, Instead of sending abroad
every cent they can rake and scrape
and kicking and growing about hard
times, Texas people should reverse the
engine and dump the trade and cash
balances into their own lap.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29

LAMAR Keeps up the lick restoring
stolen lands to the public domoin. He
has certainly laid Uncle sam under
great obligations for valiant services
IN this line,
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29

DIR. CRANFILL, OF tho Advance, has
gone 70 attend the grand powwow,
at Chicago, OF National prohibs. 1t
would not be at all surprising If the
tail of the third party national ticket
should be iIlumiued by the Texas
leaders name.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29

INDEPENDENCE, No. Noy. 2s.-ProbLbly the
most disastrous IRE that ever occurred in this
city was that VIII ich caused the total destruc-
ton OF he pslatial residence of Hon, VII liam
Chrlsmsn. this morning. The house was one
of the finest residences ia the state. Loss,
$40 030. Partly insured,
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29

THR Henrietta Independent has an
extensive and interesting write-up of
Clay county. Such articles are CAL
culated to accomplish much good and
business mon should lend helping
hand in getting up and circulating
than
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29

THE outlook tor good crops next
spring is, so far, very suspicious.
Farmers are consequently very much
encouraged.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29

THE acquittal Of Burke, the default
ing treasurer, did not release his
bondsmen, who will have to dance to
the tune of $4,000.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29

The order of the Kaiser, placing
Prince William in charge of the court
duties, heretofore performed by the
prince imperial, is indicative of the
emperor's Willingness that his mill
tary scion shall 90 into training for
the eyenttul changes that fate is
molding for Germany.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29

GOVERNMENT management of the
postal department has been very sat
isfactory. An expansion of the sys-
TEN to include telegraphy would be
hailed with delight by the people and
the press, whose patience aud endur-
ance have been put 20 the seyerest
test by the naughty domination OF mo-
nopoly.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29
WACO, TEXAS, NOV 20 1887

BuILpING material is cheaper III
Waco than at ony other point west OF
the Mississippi
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29

The Globe-Democrat announces its
ticket tor 1888 Philip IL. Sheridan
Tor president and Charles Il. Farwell
for yice-president. Tho Globe-Dem-
oorat will find it infinitely easier to
nominate candidate than to unhorse
Grover and boost the other fellow
into his saddle. The fat boy has re.
Gently taken to Workmanship, and
eyinces such aptitude in the art that it
will take bronco from the Wild west
to got him down
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29
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United States GOvernmRn
Chemists Report.

For the past four years, and more especially durna
last nine months, have been examining various ball.
powders, and have always found Dr. Prices to l.
scientifically prepared pr. mixture and superior 70
others.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
NEWsY GLEANINGS.

DURING the year 1886 thirty-six telegraph
offices were opened in China
THE New York Morgue receives 5000
bodies in the course of year.
OVER three hundred new settlements IN
Dakota are applicants for postofices
THE Salvation Army is to begin work
among tho Indians in the Northwest
CANADA's public debt is over $500, 900. 600,
an increase Of over $5,0OO,o 900 the last fiscal
year. X:
A NEW potato disease has appeared in
Louisiana, which threatens to destroy the en-
tire crop.
FLORIDA fruit neil say that the strawberry
crop this year will be nearly double that OF
last year. ..a
BENJAMIN SHURTLEFF bought piece Of
land in Chicago in 1859 for $50. He sold it
few days ago for s135, ZOO. .-s>
ELEVEN Alsatians have been sentenced to
imprisonment for six months for wearing
tri-colored ribbons in Berlin.
THE profits of the Chicago stock yards are
said to have reached the enormous sum OF
SIS, 900 during the past ten years.
IT is said that not less than two million
pounds of dried sage leaves are used annually
in the United States for various purposes.
A ATHIRTY-Two-FooT spruce log was recent.
ly sawed into boards in Puget Sound mill,
and made 6,400 feet of lumber without, a
knot. - /.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

HENRY IRvING's income is estimated at
$500 week. -
EDWIN BOOTH will be 100000 richer when
the present season closes.
THE Indians at Vancouver British Column
bIa, have band Of seventeen pieces.
EDWIN BOOTH has had one Of the greatest
successes in the history Of the legitimate drama
in San Francisco
The Abbe List wrote 1.122 compositions,
OF which I42 are transcriptiOns Of the works.
of other composers.
PAULINE HALL, Marie Jansen, and Isabel
Crquhart, new comic opera stars, were sing
ing in the chorus five years ago.
JOHN T. RAYMOND will soon appear in a
new play, "a Gold Nine" written BY George
H. Jessop and Brander Matthews.
THE circus, with its drawing power OF
the business of all the theatres in New York.
management Of Wallack's in New York when
his father retires. 1t is not unlikely that
event will occur next season. s.s-
CHRISTINE NILSSON said she would leave
the stage for good after her latest matlijno-
nial venture, but she has concluded to make
just one more farewell tour through Amer
lea. .--
MISS MARY WICKHAM. a talented Young
American violiniSt, pupil of Joachim, has
had the gold medal for art and science con-
ferled upon her by the Duke of Sake Cobug-
Gotha.
MARY VAN ZANDT. the well-known singer
has so fan recovered from her stroke of
paralysis as to be able to walk about with the
use of cane Her complete restoration is
looked for soon.
"NELLIE BLY," well-klown newspaper
correspondent is tho latest offering to the
stage. Her real name is Miss Pink E. Coch-
rane, and she has long had all ardent desire
to become all actress.
VERDI is going to finish a comic opera that
he began fifty years ago. While at work on
it his furniture was seized for rent and be lost
his wife and children--circumstanc that put :
him into anything but hunor for comic
opera. -.--
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
sweepers,

Somebody who has been investigating
the subject, says that the chief effect of
an earthquake on the ocean is the raising
of great sea wave, sometimes very large,
as, for example, sixty feet high at Lis
bon in 1761, also eighty feet at Callao in
1924, and 200 feet at Lupatka in 1877.
These waves are often more destructive
on land than the actual shocks-the IN
fluS usually preceded by an outflow,
which, in fact, acts as warning. One
OF the most remarkable effects is the dis
tance to which these waves are propa-
gated as 'grcat waves" for example.
right across the Pacific. Thus. most
large earthquakes on the east or Yves.
coast of the Pacific produce waves which
arc recorded on the opposite coast about
twcnty-four hours after. 1t is asserted
that, as to prediction Of earthquakes.
nothing certain is yet known, but in
many cases there are noticeable changes
in springs and wells preceding the event.
One useful warning, however, is remarked
as obviously possible-namely, the report
of an actual earthquake on one side Of the
Pacific could be at once teiegraphed to
the other side, thus giving twenty -four
hours notice Of the probable advent Of
great seA wave.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
A HUGE LAND RING.
FOrty.One Members Indicted For
Fraud in California.

FOrty-One Members Indicted For
Fraud in California.
A bombshell has been exploded in the camp
Of a fraudulent land survey contract ring. in
California, the members which have grown
rich in swinlling the United States Govern
mcnt out Of public lands and money paid for
surveys which were never properly made.
Tho Federal Grand Jury ut San Fran
cisco have found thirtY-thrce indictments for
perjury and eight for conspiracy. 1t is
generally understood that the charges include
ono each against men who will be defendants
in criminal actions, and who are said 70 he
rinolea1ers in the scheme to rob both
tho Government and settlers: 20 against
men who have been used by the
ring, but who are said to have guilty knowl-
edge Of tho business and 10 have sworn falsely
10 aflidavitS and StatcSmcntS as to the time
and place of making field notes, and to per-
s0nal appearances before them rs commission
crs and nOtarics whose names are subscribed
to contracts and assignment bonds.
A San Francisco dispatch says that the
importance of the action of the Grand Jury
will be Seen when it is stated that rllmor
whispers that indictments have been found
against the following persons: John A.
Benson, ostensible head Of The firm
Of Benson & Co., Oh two charges;
William II. Norway and s. W. Forman,
pa:tners-in-chief i'll the concern, two each: :
Theodore Reichart, former chief clerk in the
Surveyor-G Generals Office and now Sur
veyor General of the State, two; "Col.
Onel" j. i. Wood, first lieutenant of
Bonson and chief instructor for ignorant
deputy surveyors, two; NJ. d. Hyde.
former partner of Benson, two N. F. Reilly.
subronLactor, Two: John McNee, former
and present partner VI Benson two, and a
host OF small fry.
IT is asserted that tho same Influenza which
c,Iahlal Benson e. Co. to manipulate the
affairs Of the Snrveyor-GenernFs Office in
California enabled them TO get peep at bids
Of other contractors, and to undcr-hid
them by just enough to secure contracts
which gave than. profit Of from $lN.N0 tt
SIM th)O year. The fi7,nd Of which the i'll
,lirtnal,ts Just found are tbs result have long
hsm n public scandal, and the impending
trials tllrtrien to involve oven more proyni-
ncEt !nrn uan those mentioned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
South and West.

LEWIS STEWART troloredl was hanged nj
IaurcnS, $. c., for wife murder.
A PITCHED battle took place near Hemp
hill. Texas. between a company of State
Rangers on one side and old Willis Conner and
his three sons on the other. Three of the
Conner family and Ranger were killed and
two other Rangers were badly wounded.
The Rangers. while hunting timber thieves,
were attacked from ambush 10y the Conners.
THE steamship SaragosSa, bound from
Baltimore to Jamaica. fuundered at sea, amt
her crew and two passengers were saved hy
the ships boats, landed al Bermuda and came
thence to New York.
MORE than 1U persons are reported Starv
ing in the droughtstricken portion OF Texas.
Two men We're instantly killed and two
fatally scalded by the explosion of saw-mll!
boiler twenty miles from Columbia, sc.
A FIRE has destroyed large number OF
houses at ClarEsvillc, Tenn, The losses footing
up S%OO, 900.
THE Hotel Del Monte, at Monterey, Cal,
has been destroyed by fire. The 500 guests,
mostly Eastern people, escaped in their night
clothes The total losses are estimated at
$1,C01. 000
Monday for eight hours day and - cents
an hour.
MRS. ANGUS CAMERON. wife of the ex-
United States Senator. made an unsuccessful
attempt to drown herself at La Crosse, Wis.
She had been suffering from mental abcrra-
ton.
Miss CATHARINE WeLFFE. Il New York
lady of great wealth and exceeding liberality
is dead in her sixty-tirst year. She was
the richest unmarried woman in the Cnitc'l
States, and left an estate estimated at Sa',
0N.00D
WOMEN voted for the first time in Kalsa>
on Tuesday.
CAPTAIN T. o. SELFRIDGE. late COM
man,ler of the United States war ship Omaha,
has arrived at San Francisco, under susl'rn-
sion by Rear Admiral Chandler. While i'll
Japan group of japanese were examining
a shell fired from the Omaha in practice,
when it suddenly exploded. killing four and
woundng seven. Captain Selfrilgc was I'M
mediatelr suspended and ordered to return to
the United States and report to the Secretary
of the Navy.
SIX miners Were killed by M explosion,
anl twelve more who attempted to rescue
them wero sutfocatcd, lat Savanna, Indian
Territory.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20

Mourning dinners are the latest Paris.
fan folly. Twelve young ladies, dressed
in the deepest mourning and heavily
veiled, compose the party. The dining
room is draped in black: silver wreaths
and tombstones take the place Of pictures.
The chairs are shaped like cofins set on
end and hung with immortelles. Knives
and forks have bones fer handles. and
the champagne is served in skulls. The
dinner is eaten in silence to slow music.
What at first was poor joke has become
fashionable craze, that is hotly de-
nounced from the pulpit as immoral and
wicked
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
A MINING DISASTER.
Six Miners Killed in Indian Ter.
ritory by an Explosion.
Thirteen More Men Sufocated in
an Attempt at Rescue.

A terrible explosion has occurred at Sa-
wanna, Indian Territory, in coal shaft No. 3,
by which six miners were killed. A rescuing
party was organized and sent down into the
mine but they were overpowered by gas and
thirteen were suffocated bofore they could be
taken out, making eighteen dead in all.
The body of gas fired must have been i'm
nense, rs the torrent of flame forced from
the mouth of the slope was over hundred
feet in height and Illuminated the whole
country like an immense flash of
conclusion as to startle everyone
for miles around, and people in the immediate
vicinity we're severely shocked. The engine
house and lifting works, structure more
than 100 feet long and two stories high, was
blown into splinters blythe current driven out
OF the slope, and i'll a few minutes was en-
veloped in flames. From the character Of the
building, and it being literally saturated with
oil, it was not possible to save anything from
the flames.
There were six men in the mine at the mo-
mcnt of the explosion, which occurred at lilo
o'clock. These men were all killed. Their
names are as follows: Miles Jarrett, Dave
Jones, Hugh Dooley, " illiam Barnes, Charles
Parsons Bert French.
The most distressing part Of the accident is
the suffocation of thirteen more. who were at
tempting, with others. to reach the fated men
through the entries in No. ]. The following
are their names: James Ward, James Nc
GinniSs, Fred Batz. Thomas Maven, Mike
Kelly, Thomas Daniels. George Hill, Pat
CLANCY, Robert Miller. Pat Fagan, John
Williams. Peter Renald William Hudson.
The workings of the two mines run together
far down in the mines, but these means
tended to or kept open or in order. although
they furnish the only means of escape from
one mine to another, and now when they are
needed it is impossible to get sufficient air
through these old, disused entries to enable
the men to prosecute the search.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
A TRIPLE EXECUTION.

Three Murderers Shot to Death in
Cuba-Thcir Crime. a
Three murderers-two mulattoes and an
1ndian-were shot recently on the outskirts
OF Santiago de Cuba, at a place made
famous by the shooting Of the crew
Of the Virginius. Two years ago they
conspircd to capture a train Of pack;
mules laden with cocoa on a road near the.
city. They surprised the driver and his as-
sistant, u mere lad. cut them down with ma,
chctes, tied them to trees, and practIced
shocking and revolving crueltiess on their
victims until they were dead. Later they
sold the cocoa to Spaniard from Cat
alonia for sGS and divided the money
between them The mules they. turned
loose. The three men and the Spaniard
wcrc arrested and brought to trial. The
wealthy Spalliard got off with ten years in
the chain gang, but the murdersrs were con-
dcn,ned to death by shooting. A pardon was
asked for and refused by the Quee" OF.
Spain. .,s
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
The meanest-man connection has be-

The meanest-man competition has be-
gun again. So far California takes the
lead. 1t is recorded that q merchant in
Los Angeles observed ncwsboy peering
down into the grating in the sidewalk in
front of his store one afternoon recently,
and upon inquiry learned that the little
chap had dropped quarter into the
place and was studying upon the best
means Of recovering his wealth. The
merchant sent one of his clerks down
into the cellar, recovered the coin and
very coolly put it into his till. Apolice-
officer investigated the matter, and gave
the boy twenty-five cents to replace the
coin of which he had been plunderod.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
THEIR LAST RIDE.
Two Cowboy Dcsperadocs Killed in
Nebraska.

Two Cowboy DcsperadOcs Killed in
Nebraska.
For the last six months AllSclno, Custer
County, Neh., has been the rendezvous Of
cowboys coming from the Western ranches.
They would get drunk, make the citizens
dance, and shoot into stores and pri
rate dwellings,. The other day Hugh
Fitzpatrick and Billy- Degan, from
the {. o. ID. ranch, rode into :Auselnio,
proceeded TO fill up" and rode through the
streets firing their REVIEWERS and yelling. On
entering the billiard-llall Degan quurrclcd
with Charles Murray and shot him through
tha foot. \ telegram was sent to Sheriff
Penn at Broken Bow. tocDnie and arrest theLi
and "l his arrival, Fitzpatrick and Deggan rode
off to the outside uf town. After rPloading
their revnlvrrs, however, they charged down
the street Us before. On reaching Humphrey
Smiths hardware store Sheriff Penn de-
inillulcd their surrender and when they rc-
fusel he and his posse shot their
horses from under them. Still they would
not surrender and Penn und his posse tirtsl at
them, killing Fitzpatrick instantly, a ball
going through his heart. ;,na perforatirl::
lh'galS abdomen 81 that lie lived only
fifteen inmates.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
CH0LERA'S RAVAGES,
Two Hundred Deaths Daily in
South American City.

Two Hundred Deaths Daily in /,
South American City.
Bolivian newspaper says: The cholera
has appeared in the province of Tariia, Ar,
gentine Republic, near the Bolivian frontier
Our authorities are doing their best to pre-.
vent it reaching here, aud have cut Off all
communication with C0rimba, where the
disease is raging. Corumha is Il Brazilian
town OH the Bolivian frontier, from which il
Is separated by Il range Of the Cordilleras."
Correspondence from the Argentine Repub.
lie is sadly interesting Tucuman has suf
fered the worst, the death rate having reached
no per duy, and almost all these cases were
sudden attacks, followed by sudden deaths.
In Tururnnn tho only vehicles seen in the
streets were hc;llsc5 i'm the charge of
priests of the different orders. The
families that went into the country
found themselves cnmpcllel by hunger
to return. In the city there is great
poverty, anl meat is selling readily at ~
cents per pound. There were not doctors
enough, although happily upward Of fifty
practitioners htl arrived from BuennS AyreS
at the end nf January. Notwithstanding the
activity displayed by these humanitarialis and
the authorities, many bodies are continually
found Dutsile lie city, at the mercy II III,
dogs
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
Foreign.

NJ ANTOINE a delegate tn the German
llerhstag from Metz, has been expelled from
ilsace-L Lorraine.
THE motion Of Mr.. O'Connor, Home Rule
ilemlJer, to adjourn the debate on the COer
cion bill in the British House of Commons,
was defeated by SCI to 2J4. \ motion to cln%,
the debate was carried Giil TO 253), and the
first reading OF the hill was agreGl to with
out division. Mr. Purnell made scathinG
speech against Coercion. AMI WIS supported
by Mr.. Gladstone.
A NEW Italian Cabinet has been formed
The roof of church ut LinguagloSa,
Sicily. fell suddenly during the Sunday SER
vices, burying 100 persons, forty of whom
We're killed or injured.
A FRESHET carried away q mill-dam at
lngersoll Canada. Six persons We're
drowned.
THE Car will not permit Russia to partici-
pate i'll the Paris Exhibition in 1889, because
lie knows that the headquarters of the Nihil-
lists have been transferred to the French capi-
tai.
ADvIcES from London state that the health
OF ex-Secretary Daniel Manning is improving.
RErEATED earthquake shocks have occurred
at Alden, Arabia.
JOSIAH CALDWELL, company promoter OF
London, has failed. His liabilities arc enOr
nous. lie failed once before for $5,0M
tRGl
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
W3ShinStO1l,

RECEIPTS Of the Tnitel States Trcu .ury
for March were gu ~, from customs. 50.
3l5. .20S from internal revenue and $i,45S,iilS
for miscellaneous. makinga total Of s};.:siS,-
16j. Expenditures during the same pari"d
were S12,049, ,n31 for ordinary, 81, tT:Js! Tor
pensions and s2,S3I. .s05 for interest.
a NUMBER Of the crack military orgdniAl.
tionS in the South are about to withdraw
from the coming national drill ut Washing
ton on account of the expected participation
nf colorci troops.
ADDITIONAL Presidential postmasters ap
rointetl: j. Howard Taylor. Columbia, Oak
Siurcelus keene. Atlanta, ILL.,: -AlexanderI.
McCafforty, Austin. New.
The total redemption Of trade dollars, ac.
col,ling to the latest :rtiirns, amounts to
about $4,O1a,nO0.
THE President has appointed the following
poStmasters; &. i. Miller, Angelica, ~ Y;
Willard NJ Baird, Og,ienSburg, y. y: Will
Jam H. Price, New Brunswick. y. j.: John
kcnnall, Passair. n. j.
TIE Secretary of tlle Treasury has derilrl
that national bank dcpositalieS are not is.-
quired to redeem trade dollars under the rc-
cent act.